Gearty, Conor

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Current research interests include into terrorism, human rights and civil liberties. Research grants since 2001 have been from the ESRC for research into British attitudes to civil liberties and terrorism and for a seminar series on the role of civil society in the context of national security. In 2014 Professor Gearty was appointed principal investigator for an ESRC impact acceleration grant, made to the Institute of Public Affairs on behalf of LSE. As Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, he was responsible for the successful running of the centre. Collaborative events have been with the Centre for Civil Society, the Gender Institute and the European Institute.

Conor is also a barrister and is a founder member of Matrix chambers from where he continues to practice. He has been a frequent adviser to judges, practitioners and public authorities on the implications of the UK Human Rights Act, and has frequently lectured at home and abroad on the topic of human rights. He has appeared in human rights cases in the House of Lords, the Court of Appeal and the High Court.

Johnson, Mark and
Gearty, Conor
(2007)
Civil liberties and the challenge of terrorism
In:
Park, Alison and
Curtice, John and
Thomson, Katarina and
Phillips, Miranda and
Johnson, Mark, (eds.)
British Social Attitudes: the 23rd Report: Perspectives on a Changing Society. British social attitudes survey series (23). Sage Publications, London, UK, 143-182. ISBN 9781412934329

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Conor Gearty was born in Ireland and graduated in law from University College Dublin before moving to Wolfson College, Cambridge in 1980 to study for a Master’s Degree and then for a PhD. He became a fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge in 1983 and in 1990 he moved to the school of law at King’s College London where he was first a senior lecturer, then a reader and finally (from 1995) a professor. On 1 October 2002, he took up a new appointment as Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and professor of human rights law at LSE. He has also been a visiting professor at Boston University, the University of Richmond and the University of New South Wales.

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